This diagram makes things look like “constant dollar value” and it is weird to see it being used for a simple numerical value when dollars are also being used.

This isn't a nuance. This is the entire point of a data visualization. From this sub's rule on qualifying data visualizations: "A data variable must be transformed and mapped onto a visual property such as color, size, or position." If the bars don't scale with anything, they're useless, and what we're left with is a weirdly formatted table with random shapes attached to them.

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i’ve always wondered about this breakdown

So there’s this thing called CSOK which is a loan from the government to give you about max 25 million huf, which you can use to build a new house. Now if you have 3 babies after taking CSOK in a certain period of time you don’t repay the loan, so free house for babies. Even if you dont make three there’s like 0 interest on the loan to repay over a long period of time. Now this would seem good on paper however the sudden influx of money to the construction market skyrocketed real estate prices due to the overwhelming amount of new building requests - of course the only real winners here are the construction firms that has close ties to the government (yep, corruption), naturally in parallel property price also goes up. Due to the pandemic there’s a global rise on the price of construction materials, that’s not helping either. Add a healthy amount of labour shortage and a brutal inflation on the national currency gives you that

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I’ve had much rougher experiences with other banks getting money back.

Of course Amex will take your side in disputes. Either Amex is liable, your FI is liable, or the merchant is liable. Unless you're doing claims on your Amazon purchases because you overspent, it'll always work out in YOUR favor due to Reg E. Their job is to pass off the cost of fraud to your FI or the merchant.

So many places don't take Amex for this reason - their verification services are ass, so many merchants will be held liable without chip integration/2FA on online purchases. The cost will almost never fall on them. That's why so few banks carry them/so few merchants accept them.

Source: what I do for a living

Thanks for the feedback. I had to scale down some of the data points to leave room for the text that clarified that some of the revenue items meant, so the bars are not exactly proportional. For instance in the scaled version (based on absolute numbers), merchant fees took up most of the right side of the visual, and processed revenue had limited space.

Hope you understand. I'll play around with better ways to scale to accomodate nuance like this in future.

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This is great feedback.

The aggregate of the right side is the total revenue and the aggregate of the left side is total expenses - so net income is the diff, less taxes and interest expenses. To your point, I should have included the net income in the chart to clarify that. I should probably also have included the totals for both revenue and expenses at the top of the visualization

It doesn't make sense at all. If we compare miscellaneous in the expenses column ($1.8 billion/5%) and processed revenue in the revenue column ($1.6 billion/2.8%), the miscellaneous bar is smaller even though it is larger in absolute dollars and as a percentage.

There are a lot of things that can raise the effective tax rate without actually changing the amount of tax you’ll pay year to year. Anytime there’s a rate above 30% or so, that’s likely the case

You can buy real estate here if you live here permanently, regardless of how long you've been here.

But in general you can't invest in real estate here from abroad.

Cool graphic! I’m surprised Amex collects so little in card fees honestly. Proportionally speaking. Either way, Amex is by far the best credit card issuer imo, especially if you have disputes, cause they’ll always take your side and have amazing customer service

Only reason it's on decline is that price levels were getting ridiculous.

So there isn't an option and some would prefer it. The post suggests lowering the base rate to accommodate tipping and other people disagree. I guess the bottom line is that it's not expected. FedEx policy is they are not allowed to accept it.

> google FedEx tipping and see what comes up

embarrassing for you... really

https://www.reddit.com/r/FedEx/comments/zfmtpg/why_isnt_there_an_option_to_tip_fedexups_drivers/

Why are the $14b in the expenses category and $30.7b in revenues not proportional? Where does net income come from?

This is a cool graphic with good info but I’m struggling to interpret the actual data.

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Newsflash, yes, I know, but this is a sex-based plot and feminism is supposed to be about equality of the sexes.

As an aside, I don't think I've heard someone say newsflash since those sassy teens in 90s TV shows.

> I don't really get how people can live off of it

one google later...

https://thisonlineworld.com/living-off-doordash/

but also, is salary my job as a consumer to ensure? Shouldn't the driver decide that if they're seeing if this side gig is worth it? If most of don't think it is, wouldn't they quit (they did where I live and now delivery is 40% more expensive)

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Near me, more and more merchants are simply passing that fee directly to the customer through surcharges from 2-4%. Makes the rewards seem silly...